Being in the playoff chase has put a jump in Tom Coughlin

For one reason or another it doesn’t come together that way. They have a coaching staff with a combined 229 years of National Football League experience, more than twice Miami’s total.

On Sunday, after the Jets kicked a field goal to cut the lead to seven points, the Giants got the ball back with 4:24 left on the clock and could not get a first down.

There’s a saying that if you have two quarterbacks, you don’t have any quarterbacks.

Man, is that the truth with the Giants.

The weekly plan of alternating Rashad Jennings, Shane Vereen, Andre Williams and Orleans Darkwa just hasn’t worked. Jennings (3.7) and Williams (2.8) have lagged behind.

All four backs also have roles on special teams, and they are all fresh, considering none of them has taken a pounding on offense.

“I do feel like it’s in my blood”, Campbell said, “and I feel like I’m doing what I was meant to be doing”.

Is there a workhorse on the Giants? “Everybody deserves the ball, everybody deserves to go out there and show what they can do, if we go series-by-series and try to get it working as much as possible”.

“We just have to keep going”, he said.

At that point, both Coughlin and Manning seemed to be on their way to Canton, but now the reeling Giants are seeking to avoid a fourth consecutive season without a playoff berth. “I can’t say what the deal is because I don’t know. My concern is how in the world can we win”.

The New York Giants (5-7) travel to play the Miami Dolphins (5-7) looking to snap their three-game losing streak. They average 101.5 return yards per game, third in the NFL. Miller will get lots of work as Miami again emphasizes its running game.

“That’s not the reason the run game is not going, okay?”

“There is nobody to blame but me”, Coughlin said after the season opener. The Dolphins are good enough to beat him, and so, if Miami’s players come through for him, is Campbell.

To critics, that prevents one or two backs from finding a rhythm, a concept rejected by Tom Coughlin.

“What does the hot hand look like?” Long-time New York Daily News NFL writer Gary Myers is now urging Coughlin to retire at the end of the season, noting he is 27-33 since 2011, when Coughlin led the Giants to their second Super Bowl upset against the Patriots within a four-year span.

Twelve games into the season, the Giants continue to search for the rushing attack they thought they had when it began. Tannehill has six touchdown passes in his last three games. We just have to stay focused on that and go into this week and know that we have to win.